Thursday, November 2, 2017

Democrats, the party of Wall St and military intervention, aren't distracted by the working class. They think RussiaGate will bring voters back. It comes down to this: Obama was a far more effective con man than Trump is-Phil Rockstroh, Consortium News

Apropos, I recall a piece published in the New York Times after
Trump’s “pussy grabbing” palaver came to light, late in the 2016
presidential campaign. Quoting from the article, headlined: “Inside
Trump Tower, an Increasingly Upset and Alone Donald Trump,” published
Oct 9, 2016:

When was the last
time you witnessed an affluent liberal expressing umbrage in regard to
their caste’s proclivity for class-based shaming?

The supercilious mindset is the result of an insularity borne of
privilege. Moreover, when do liberals ever converse, one on one, with
members of the laboring class, unless, of course, the situation involves
the de facto master/servant relationship involved in a service industry
exchange?

Why do liberals refuse to acknowledge class-based deprivation as a
defining factor in the angst and animus of the laboring class?

In short, an honest reckoning would cause Liberalcrats to acknowledge
classism is, as is the case with sexism and racism, hurtful,
destructive, and flat-out reprehensible. Moreover, an acknowledgement
would call them to account for their own privilege thus revealing the
imperative to make amends and provide restitution for their complicity
in the oppression inflicted on the less fortunate by capitalism, the
system that is the source of liberal affluence and the progenitor of
their snobbery.

A Buffer for the Rich

The Liberal Class have, on an historical basis, acted as the buffer
zone between leftist, minority, and laboring-class aspirations and the
capitalist over-class — i.e., the bestower of liberacrat privilege. As
the man limned in lyric, “same as it ever was.” Thus we come upon a
reason for the mistrust held by people languishing on the
boot-on-the-neck side of the capitalist class divide for economically
privileged liberals....

The rise of rightist demagogues and their angst-ridden,
resentment-reeking followers, both on an historical and present day
basis, can be traced to a primary source: the loss of hope and the daily
doses of humiliation inflicted on the working class by capitalist
economic despotism. In the hollow regions of the psyche where hope has
been banished, rage rises and fills the aching void.

Hence, the dark art of shame displacement, in the form of racist and
xenophobic tropes, can and will be retailed by demagogues. Don’t blame
the capitalist Plundering Class, they exhort, instead blame immigrants
and minorities (who, in reality, are also victims of capitalism’s
inherent depravities) for your dismal prospects. Build an unscalable
border wall, deport the interlopers en masse, put an end to the practice
of “reverse racism” (of which, polls reveal the majority of white
people, in utter defiance of reality, believe is widespread) then
America’s greatness will be restored and the usurped futures of
hard-working, true Americans will be seized back from undeserving
hordes of interlopers....

Russia-gate to the Rescue

And what is the Democrats plan? From all appearances, a full spectrum deployment of … more of the same.

Thus we arrive at the question: How can they display such a yawning
disconnect from reality? And we shamble into the tawdry reality: The
Democratic Party eliteand their cynical operatives possess the sum
total of nada desire to be connected with anyone other than their
economic elite benefactors--withal, the only constituency to whom they
possess any degree of fealty.

Thus Democratic partisans cling to the salvation fantasy that an act
of deus ex machina will soon be at hand. But how many times now has
Trump’s trajectory toward impeachment been assured by some new
revelation … yet nothing substantive comes of the vaporous evidence?...

It comes down to this: Almost everyone, at this point, sees through
Trump’s popinjay ways. Barack Obama, aka former President Citigroup von
Drone, was a far more effective con man. How so? Liberals had the Wall
Street bagman and multicultural imperialist Obama’s back. At present,
after his two terms, he is luxuriating in the cash-redolent embrace of
his High Dollar benefactors, as all the while, bedecked in their broken
tiara and torn prom dress regalia, Democratic Party loyalist pine away
for another sweet lie-proffering, political Lothario to replace the
likes of Obama’s charming vapidity.

“I don’t want realism. I want magic”--Blanche DuBois, from Tennessee William stage play, “A Streetcar Named Desire.” What a cringe-inducing sight it is. One almost could be moved to pity
in regard to Democrats’ Blanche DuBois theatrics. But, of course,
gentle, vulnerable Blanche never acted as an apologist for drone murder
nor blamed Russian meddling for her troubled plight.

"Phil Rockstroh is a poet, lyricist and philosopher bard living, now, in Munich, Germany. He may be contacted: philrockstroh.scribe@gmail.com and at FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/phil.rockstroh" ........................ Among comments-------------------

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Comment: This article isn't saying the Republican Party is any better. As I see it, the GOP ceased to exist after the Nov. 2008 election. Always happier in the minority, they resurfaced briefly to destroy the Tea Party and make sure Obama was re-elected in 2012.